The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . , Sagittarius is the House and Joy ofJupiter. Those born between November 22d and De-cember 21st are said to be ruled by this sign. It isconsidered a lucky sign, and masculine. Dunkin saysthat Arcandum, an old astrologist, who published abook in 1542, declared that a person bom under thesign Sagittarius, is to be thrice wedded, to be veryfond of vegetables, to become a matchless tailor, andto have three special illnesses; but as the last attackof sickness is to befall the patient at
The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . , Sagittarius is the House and Joy ofJupiter. Those born between November 22d and De-cember 21st are said to be ruled by this sign. It isconsidered a lucky sign, and masculine. Dunkin saysthat Arcandum, an old astrologist, who published abook in 1542, declared that a person bom under thesign Sagittarius, is to be thrice wedded, to be veryfond of vegetables, to become a matchless tailor, andto have three special illnesses; but as the last attackof sickness is to befall the patient at eighty years ofage, it is not of paramount moment. The archer was the tribal symbol of Ephraim andManasseh. Not far from Mu, a pale yellow multiplestar of the fourth magnitude, in the north tip of thearchers bow, is the grand cluster 24 M, visible to thenaked eye. A little south-west of Mu is the famouscluster 8 M, also a naked-eye object. It can be foundby drawing a line from the star Phi to Lambda, andextending it an equal distance. It is said to be a clustersuperposed upon a fine nebula. Two of the most. Yerkes Observatory Plate IX. Star-Cloud and Black Holes in Sagittarius The Night-Sky of Summer 115 marvellous so-called coal-sacks—dark spots whereno stars appear—photographed by Barnard (PlateIX.), are in this cluster. To the north of this is therich and celebrated nebula marked 20 M, discoveredin 1764, and sometimes called the Trifid Nebula,a large gaseous nebula of strange shape, traversed by-dark rifts, as though it had been torn asunder bysome wandering star drifting through it. The famousOmega Nebula marked 17 M, thus named from itsalleged resemblance to the Greek letter Omega, is afine, large, and bright object, easily seen with a smalltelescope. Centaurus (The Centaur) Lying between Hydra and the far-famed SouthernCross is the large and brilliant constellation Centaurus,the Centaur. It is in the southern sky so low downthat the main part of it can be seen only i
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